recently as heavy rains scoured away the land the depleted bridge was anchored to.The bridge for years has been a major throughway between the cities of Los Angeles and Phoenix as many cars use the bridge to get to there destination.Which caused the collapse was ‚water hurrying through an ordinarily dry desert chasm disintegrating the area around the bridge‚ bringing about one side of the eastward interstate to fall and causing the closure of the westward side.California Department of Transportation
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Emmet Till was a fourteen year- old boy brutally murdered on August 24th 1955. When he repeatedly flirted with a white cashier at a grocery store. Four days later Till was kidnapped by two white men‚ J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant‚ who were brothers‚ they beat him and shot him dead in the head. The white men were approved for murder‚ although‚ a bias‚ white-all male jury freed them. Till’s open casket funeral aroused the emerging Civil Rights Movement. In my opinion‚ Emmett Till was a naïve young boy
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In his lifetime Shirer wrote many incredible novels‚ but he was famous for his nonfiction. He wrote‚ “Berlin Dairy”‚ “The Sinking of Bismarck”‚ “The Collapse of the Third Republic” any many others. But it was “The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich” is the one that won him the National Book Award and a special Sidney Hillman Foundation award. His “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich‚” is still read by many people and is being cited in scholarly works for many years. The book is based on Shirer’s own
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tensions‚ and perseverance through adversities. Although Detroit has a long and prosperous history‚ primarily due to its automobile industry‚ a bankruptcy was filed on July 18‚ 2013. By this time‚ the city had reached 18-20 billion dollars in debt. This collapse not only affected the city’s industries‚ but the citizens of Detroit as well. Detroit is known to be one of the most difficult cities to live in as it breeds economic hardships. As Detroit rebuilds itself from economic and political failure‚ many
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Alabama. They (Henry‚ Emanuel and Mayer Lehman) founded the Lehman Brothers which prospered and grew over the years‚ and grew strong over difficulties bankruptcy‚ wars‚ capital shortage‚ capital management collapse‚ and debt default. They survived it all. However‚ the U.S. housing market collapse brought them down. Their involvement in subprime mortgage market was their mistake for the taking. During 2003 and 2004‚ the U.S. housing boomed‚ and Lehman acquired five mortgage lenders two subprime lenders
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Protostar This is the stage in which the star begins to form after the collapse of the interstellar cloud. It happens in small molecular clouds that can be referred to as dense cores. In the beginning the dense core has a level of balance between its own gravitational forces (self-gravity)‚ and both the magnetic pressure‚ and gas pressure. The self-gravity acts to compress the dense core‚ while the gas‚ and magnetic pressures act to inflate it. The core’s self-gravity will eventually overwhelm it
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Emmett Till was a 14 year old colored boy from Chicago‚ IL. He lived there with his mother who grew up in Mississippi‚ a very segregated state. His father was not around much because he was in the service‚ but he left his mother a ring that had his initials engraved into it. One of Emmett’s family members who still lived in Mississippi wanted Emmett to come stay with him for a little bit. Emmett’s mother was nervous because she knew of the segregated ways of the south‚ nothing like Chicago. She warned
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Colony Collapse Disorder Bees are weird animals. They know how to count to four based on a experiment done at the University of Queensland; they communicate with one another through dancing and pheromones; their fat bodies make them one of the least aerodynamic creatures that have ever left the ground; they can carry one hundred and twenty two times their body weight; and have personalities that have been characterized as anything from “thrill-seekers” to “pessimistic”1‚2. The oddest thing about
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In 1955‚ Emmett Till‚ a 14 year-old boy‚ went to a grocery store with his cousin‚ where he bought a piece of candy‚ and left the store. Emmett stayed in the store and talked to the white woman‚ Carolyn Bryant‚ running the counter‚ shortly after the woman walk out the store‚ Emmett wolf whistle at her‚ and then ran away with his cousin. A few days later‚ the woman husband‚ Roy Bryant‚ came back from a business trip‚ the woman told her husband about what happened‚ days later‚ Roy Bryant ‚ his brother-
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Collapse of Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers was an investment bank that went back to the 1850s‚ surviving the Civil War‚ two World Wars‚ the Great Depression and any other great misfortune that this 160 year old company’s history had gone bankrupt. Lehman brothers were an important part in the financial and commercial industries in the United States. People may have thought that leverage was a bad thing; they should have realized that a dry-goods store turned into a huge investment bank then
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